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Examination of the physical (colour, odour, pH, solubility in various solvent) and chemical (GCMS and FTIR) characteristics of Ficus benjamina gum revealed that the gum is yellowish in colour, mildly acidic and ionic in nature. Major constituents of the gums were found to be sucrose and d-glucose, which constituted 60.92 % of its chemical constituents while various carboxylic acids (albietic acid (1.00 %); hexadecanoic acid (4.41 %); 9-octadecanoic acid (1.00 %), stearic acid (3.01 %); oleic acid (0.10 %); octadecanoic acid (9.12 %) and 6,13-pentacenequinone (20.43 %) accounted for the remaining constituents. Functional groups identified in the gum were found to be those typical for other carbohydrates. From the knowledge of the chemical structures of compounds that constitutes the gum, the corrosion inhibition potentials of the gum was ascertained and from weight loss analysis, the gum was found to be an active inhibitor against the corrosion of aluminum in solutions of tetraoxosulphate (VI) acid. The gum acted as an adsorption inhibitor that favours the mechanism of chemical adsorption and supported the Frumkin and Dubinin-Radushkevich adsorption models. doi: 10.14456/WJST.2015.94
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The Walailak Journal of Science and Technology (Walailak J. Sci. & Tech. or WJST), is a peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of science and technology, launched in 2004. It is published 12 Issues (Monthly) by the Institute of Research and Innovation of Walailak University. The scope of the journal includes the following areas of research : - Natural Sciences: Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Physics and Astronomy. -Life Sciences: Allied Health Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Dentistry, Genetics, Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Nursing, Pharmaceutics, Psychology, Public Health, Tropical Medicine, Veterinary. -Applied Sciences: Agricultural, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Cybernetics, Earth and Planetary, Energy, Engineering, Environmental, Food Science, Information Technology, Meat Science, Nanotechnology, Plant Sciences, Systemics